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1950 Ян Хишун. Древнекитайский философ Лао-цзы и его учение. — Москва-Ленинград.

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A book «The Mystery of Dao: the World of Dao De Jing» by Russian scholar and orientalist Dr. Alexei A. Maslov analyzes the sources, significance and substance of the early stage of Taoism especially of the very mystical philosophical circle related with the teaching of Lao-tzu and called «laoism». This work that constitutes a result of the author long-standing studies of the spiritual tradition of old China includes a full and up to date translation of Dao De Jing with Wang Bi’s commentaries, special studies of historical, spiritual background and author’s textological commentaries on Chinese texts.

A book possesses of 4 closely related parts. Author tries to show a wide range picture of the development of an early Taoism and Chinese mysticism in the second part of the 1-st millennium ВС.

The first part «Eternal Wanderer» represents a history and main idea of early Taoism called «laoism» by the name of Lao-tzu as the most brilliant representative of this school. Author especially uses the notion «laoism» to divide the early stage of development of Chinese mysticism from the late stage represented by the Taoist alchemy, art of the reaching «eternally life», meditative methods.

We must differ the real Lao-tzu as a philosopher and mystic from the mythological personage of the same name. The last one was made sacral as a «Lord Lao-jun», that became a hero of a popular tradition and a local spirit. It is very hard to say something precision about the life and activities of the real Lao-tzu. He was a «bookkeeper». It seems that Lao-tzu was not a creator of the main Taoism philosophical stream nor the one of the Taoist school. He belonged to the stratum of «shi» — a class of individuals, drawn from downwardly mobile nobility, so called «small hoses». Representatives of a such class had served as bookkeepers (like Laotzu), minor administrators, scribes, etc. The most important character of their state of mind was a highly developed sense of social responsibility that draw there toward the creation of concepts of the harmonization of the Underhaven.